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Treating Weekly Royal Pains with Actor Paulo Costanzo
by Troy Rogers
 Actor
Paulo Costanzo is one funny guy, with a unique
sense of humor that's the perfect compliment to
Royal Pains lead, Mark Feuerstein. Playing Evan
Lawson, the free spirited, number crunching accountant
brother of the Hamptons' new concierge doctor
Hank Lawson, Paulo Costanzo puts his own fresh
stamp on the brother-buddy comedy formula as he
settles into the popular USA Network series, which
airs Thursday nights at 10pm.
When we first talked to Paulo on the day Royal Pains premiered, the former Road Trip, Josie and the Pussycats, 40 Days and 40 Nights, and Joey actor shared a story about searching for a toothbrush in the Hamptons where he learned of the dark underbelly of "Richville." This week when we caught up with Paulo for a second time to learn more about how Royal Pains was shaping up in the USA line-up, Costanzo shared a new story with TheDeadbolt about his time in the Hamptons where he recently ran into a doctor who cracked an ailing man's chest with a pocket knife to message his heart and bring him back to life. With the Hamptons now in the Royal Pains spotlight on USA, who knew the Bel Air of the east was such a comedic billion dollar wild kingdom in real life?
With Royal Pains now one of the most popular new shows on cable, Paulo is also letting fans go behind the scenes with him via a V-log on the set of Royal Pains and asking Royal Painers to e-mail him at his character's address, evan.lawsoncfo@gmail.com, to let him know what they'd like to see most since he'll be spending his days working on the Hampstons set.
Check out our latest chat below with Paulo
where Royal Pains' Evan Lawson filled us in
on the upcoming guest stars and learning both
sex related Italian and medical terminology
then plus yourself into our Exclusive
Royal Pains Prescription with Actor Paulo Costanzo.
In our first chat with Paulo Costanzo, the Royal
Pains actor gave us tips on wearing a Speedo
and a blazer like he did in the pilot. This
week we had the chance to follow up.
THE DEADBOLT: By the way, I haven’t tried the Speedo and the blazer on the beach yet, but I’m working on it.
 COSTANZO:
You should, if you want to get stabbed and left
for dead.
THE DEADBOLT: [laughs] I thought Hankapalooza sounded like a good idea. What other festivities does Evan have planned for later on down the road?
COSTANZO: To be honest, it’s interesting to ask questions like that because I don’t even know. They give us the scripts so late for this show, sometimes within three days of shooting it. So, I don’t know, there’s definitely some festivities that occur in the next couple weeks, but none that are Evan-initiated, sadly.
THE DEADBOLT: I noticed that Evan's Italian was pretty bad. Can you speak any other languages?
COSTANZO: Yes, I’m half Italian. So my grandfather speaks heavy Italian and I couldn’t understand a word he said. And I realized he’s getting up there, I’d love to be able to understand three words he says in my life. So I went and started taking Italian classes about a year ago and I took it for about nine months, so I know enough to understand and make sex jokes, but that’s kind of it. For instance, "No, no, no. Mi piache, mi piache a verde seso con muto devere su tipo dimare mari con me mylalini, gondarone, mi amo"
I just said I like to have sex with many different kinds of animals, like little piglets and baby shrimp. I love it. That’s what I said. Lo amo, I love it. That was a fun episode. They actually wrote that because I told them I can speak some Italian.
THE DEADBOLT: Can you talk about some of the guest stars we’ll see this season?
 COSTANZO:
Andy McCarthy’s back next week in a much larger
guest-starring role. And Rosalyn Sanchez showed
up. She is utterly gorgeous and a really, really
nice actress as well. James Rebhorn and David
Alabaish will be guesting on the episode this
Thursday night and Brooklyn Decker, the swimsuit
model, will be on the show. She’s utterly the
most lovely person and really hot.
THE DEADBOLT: Even though you’re not a medical person on the show, what’s the coolest thing you’ve learned around all the medical speak?
COSTANZO: Oh, dude, that’s crazy. Well, I’m going to jump the tracks for a second here. This weekend I went to the Hamptons. This doesn’t have to do with the show, specifically, but I’m interested in medicine more. And I met a surgeon up in the Hamptons and he told me, I said, "What’s the craziest thing you’ve done?" just because he told me he loved the show. And he said, "Well, this one time there was a car accident and I stopped on the side of the highway and there was a guy in cardiac arrest." And he said with a pocketknife that he carries, a very sharp pocket knife, he cracked his chest, reached inside and massaged his heart, and he said he saved his life.
THE DEADBOLT: With a pocket knife?
 COSTANZO:
With a pocket knife in his hands. No sterilization.
Nothing. He actually managed to save this man’s
life. So, these things do happen in life. They
really do, and being a doctor is an incredible
thing in life. Having one around changes the
dynamic of any accident that happens around
you. Suddenly, a fatal accident becomes something
that’s not fatal anymore.
Other Conference Call Highlights
Paulo Costanzo on the
mystery surrounding Campbell Scott's character
and the mansion
"Boris is a bolt of mystery. So yes, that will be slowly unfolding. And as I say, I have no idea what it’s going to be. I just know that that’s a large part of the show because we love Campbell Scott and the character is just - from the get-go they’ve established him as the intrigue of the show."
Costanzo on the back
story of Evan's life
"We’ve all talked about it but it’s one of those things where it’s a slow burn. We can’t give up too much, too fast and that’s part of what makes television is in keeping people watching to find that stuff out. So yes, I do know. I know. He was a prostitute [laughs]. Sorry, I had to just let it out. No, he’s definitely got a somewhat shady background. That’s all I can say."
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